Word: stevension
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string...
Many another hotelman grinned when he remembered the Stevens' reputation as one of the world's outstanding peacetime white elephants (chief disadvantage: the Stevens is not convenient to the heart of Chicago's Loop). But they had enough respect for Hilton's reputation as a mon...
Connie Hilton loves to color a white elephant. His technique, with hotels less lively than the Stevens, has been to humanize them according to Hilton standards, to free them of the dead, half-lit, intimate air. His chief bid is for freer-spending transients; Hilton hotels do not go after...
The Big Deal. Probably the only man to dampen the buying zeal of Trader Hilton is red-faced, reticent ex-Bricklayer Stephen Healy. A contractor at heart, Healy was an uneasy owner of the $28,000,000 lakefront gargantua. But Hilton's obvious passion to own the place made...
Unhappy Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. could find scant comfort last week in these lines from the Song of Solomon, source of the title of his standing-room-only hit, The Voice of the Turtle. In Manhattan and Chicago, the Voice's two companies were putting up a losing...